Orthopedic

Philip O. Merritt, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Adventist Health in Glendale, Calif.

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Matthew S. Bliss, MD, joined the orthopedic surgeon team at the Fort HealthCare Orthopaedic Associates clinic in Fort Atkinson, Wis.

Joseph Ingram, MD, joined OrthoAlabama Spine and Sports in Trussville, Ala., according to The Trussville Tribune.

Reid A. Abrams, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at UC San Diego Health.

A new study published in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research examines the growing wage gap between healthcare executives and physicians at major nonprofit hospitals in the U.S.

The department of orthopaedic surgery at Rush University Medical Center, including their Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush physicians, were ranked as No. 4 in the U.S. and No. 1 in Illinois on U.S. News and World Report's Best Hospitals 2018-19 list.

Joseph J. Ciotola, MD, is an orthopedic surgeon at Baltimore-based Mercy Medical Center.

When considering the job's most rewarding and challenging aspects, orthopedists cite gratitude and the relationships with patients as most rewarding, while the amount of rules and regulations for physicians leads as most challenging, according to Medscape's Physician and Compensation Report.

The American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons supports CMS' Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System's proposed rule to move the two sites of service closer to site-neutral payments.